Improvement in feeding apparatus for card-printing presses



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V w. M.- CLARK. FEEDING APPARATUS FOR GARDfP'RINTING-PRESS. No.182,104.Pa tented Sept. 12,1876.

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W. M. CLARK.

FEEDING APPARATUS FOR CARD PRINTING-PRESS. No.18Z,'104. L Patented.Sept.12, 18i7'6.

I I I ATTORNEYS.

NVFETERS. PMOTOMTHOGRAPHER WASHXNGTONV D c.

WILLIAM M. CLARK, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FEEDING APPARATUS FOR CARD-PRINTING PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. CLARK, of

Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and Improved Feeding Apparatus for Gard-PrintingPresses, of which the following is a specification:

Figure l is a vertical section of my improved device, taken through theline a; m, Fig. 2, and shown as applied to a printing-press. Fig. 2 is adetail front View of the platen and its attachments. Fig. 3 is a detailcrosssectionof the same, taken through the line y 3 Fig. 2.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved attachment forprinting-presses to feed cards into the press automatically, and todischarge them when they are printed, and which shall be simple inconstruction, easily applied to the press, and reliable in operation.

The invention will first be described'in connection with the drawing,and then pointed out in the claims.

A represents the frame. B is the bed. 0 is the chase. D is thehook-lever, and E is its set-screw, for locking the chase to the bed. Fis the platen. G are the arms that pivot the platen F to the frame A. His the lever by which the platen F is operated. I are the gripers bywhich the card is held to the platen while being printed, and J is thebent rod to which said gripers are attached, and which is held by, andworks in, keepers attached to the frame A. K is a plate or frame, whichrests upon, and is secured to,

the upper edge of the platen F by slotted lugs and screws, in such aposition that the face of the plate K and of the platen F may be in thesame plane. To the lower part of the plate K is attached a flange orshelf,.L, the middle part of the inner edge of which is at such adistance from the face ofthe said plate K that one card, and only one,can pass between them at a time. The shelf L is secured to the plate Kby screws and thumbnuts M, and rubber washers N are placed upon the saidscrews, between the edge of the shelf L and the plate K, so that thedistance between said parts may be adjusted to the thick- No. 182 104,dated September 12, 1876; application liled April 25, 1876.

for the ends of the cards to rest against, and which are made flaringfor convenience in putting in the cards. The guides 'O are attached tobars P, which are secured in place by screws Q, which pass through shorttransverse slots in the plate K, so that the guides O can be adjusted ata distance apart equal to the length of the cards. The cards arefour-armed plate, R, which is pivoted at its center to the lower end ofthe bar S, the upper end of which is pivoted to a stud, T, attached tothe upper part of the plate K. The spider B is pressed down upon thecards by a spring, U, attached to the'stud T, and which presses upon thebar S. To the lower side of the plate K are attached two rods, V, uponwhich slide two hooks, W, connected by a coupling-bar, X. The hooksW'project through slots in the plate K, and rise so far above thesurface of said plate that as they move downward they will strike theupper edge of the lowest card and push it out beneath the edge of theshelf L. To the bar X is pivoted the end of which is pivoted to thelever H, so that a card may be fed down by the movement of the leverH,"'to carry the platen F forward. The upper edges of the lower cardsrest against a stop, Z, secured adjustahly in a slot in the plate K by ascrew and nut, so that it may be adjusted to the breadth of the cards.The stop Z prevents the lower card from being moved upward by thefriction o f the hooks W as they As the card passes down beneath theshelf L, its ends pass beneath the flanges of the bars A, attached tothe bars P, and projecting downward along the platen to guide the cardto the place where it is to be printed. As the card reaches the placewhereit is to be printed it'is stopped by the inwardly-projecting curvedpoints of the arms B, which receive its lower edge. As the platen isdrawn back, the curved points B raise the card sligh tly as its loweredge slips from them, so as to release it, should it stick to theplaten, and allow it to drop from the press. The arms B slide upon thegripers I, so that they may be adjusted as the width of the card mayrequire.

held down against the plate K by a spider or -Ul\TITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

ness of the cards to be printed. O are guides upper end of theconnecting-rod Y, thelower 2 reams Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure" by Let'- ters Patent, is u 1.The combination of the plate K, the adjustable shelf L, the adjustableguides O, the spider and its, spring-bars R S U, and the flangedguide-bars A, to hold the cards and guide them into place upon theplaten F, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The adjustablerarms B, provided with in wardly-prqjeeting curved,points, serving the purpose both of stops-for the card and to raise thecard slightly from the face of platen, as set forth.

WILLIAM M. CLARK. Witnesses:

EDWIN K. LUN'DY, HERBERT J. H. PIGKEBING.

